TY - JOUR
T1 - Quality of life in dementia
T2 - Do professional caregivers focus on the significant domains?
AU - Gerritsen, Debby L.
AU - Ettema, Teake P.
AU - Boelens, Ellen
AU - Bos, Joke
AU - Hoogeveen, Frans
AU - De Lange, Jacomine
AU - Meihuizen, Lucinda
AU - Schölzel-Dorenbos, Carla J.M.
AU - Dröes, Rose Marie
PY - 2007/1/1
Y1 - 2007/1/1
N2 - The domains of quality of life that are considered important by people with dementia and professional caregivers are not in agreement. This explorative study addresses the question, "To what degree do professional caregivers, in their daily working routine, focus on the quality-of-life domains that people with dementia consider essential?" Study participants were nursing assistants who work in 24-hour nursing home care and professionals who offer daytime activities. Three hundred and seventy-four caregivers working on 29 units and 3 day care facilities of 13 nursing homes and in 12 meeting centers filled out a questionnaire. The caregivers reported to focus at least to some degree on most domains considered important by people with dementia. However, relatively little attention was paid to "financial situation" and "being useful/giving meaning to life." Professionals who offer daytime activities focused more than 24-hour care staff on "attachment," "enjoyment of activities," "sense of aesthetics," and "being useful/giving meaning to life.".
AB - The domains of quality of life that are considered important by people with dementia and professional caregivers are not in agreement. This explorative study addresses the question, "To what degree do professional caregivers, in their daily working routine, focus on the quality-of-life domains that people with dementia consider essential?" Study participants were nursing assistants who work in 24-hour nursing home care and professionals who offer daytime activities. Three hundred and seventy-four caregivers working on 29 units and 3 day care facilities of 13 nursing homes and in 12 meeting centers filled out a questionnaire. The caregivers reported to focus at least to some degree on most domains considered important by people with dementia. However, relatively little attention was paid to "financial situation" and "being useful/giving meaning to life." Professionals who offer daytime activities focused more than 24-hour care staff on "attachment," "enjoyment of activities," "sense of aesthetics," and "being useful/giving meaning to life.".
KW - Dementia
KW - Professional caregivers
KW - Quality of life
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34347402471&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1177/1533317507299771
DO - https://doi.org/10.1177/1533317507299771
M3 - Article
C2 - 17606526
VL - 22
SP - 176
EP - 183
JO - American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and other Dementias
JF - American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and other Dementias
SN - 1533-3175
IS - 3
ER -